Let’s Go To The Movies

Davin Dillon

2022-04-18

There were many renames and some work to choose a budget in some cases. Once I had the columns I wanted, I set in on joining the data together. First, I joined the meta data with the budget data to include all of the titles for which I had information. My next adventure (or misadventure) was to join this data with the inflation data. Once that was done, all that was left was joining this information with the Oscar data. All in all, I used three full joins.

Some Dataset Numbers

The data I was able to collect contains 4,834 movies nominated for an Academy Award since its inception in 1929. Of these 4,834 movies. 1,274 won at least one award. There have been 13,312 total Oscar nominations, and 3,001 total Oscar wins in the dataset. 770 movies have been nominated for Best Picture in its many forms. Out of these, 126 won.1,154 movies have had an actor or actress nominated in either a leading or supporting role.313 movies had at least one winner in an acting category.

Popular Movies

There are a total of 680,347,622 votes in the dataset.5,540 movies have received at least 10,000 votes on imdb. Of these movies, 224 were nominated for Best Picture. 37 won Best Picture. Doing the math, this means that 89 Best Picture winners have less than 10,000 votes on imdb according to this data.

Plotting Profit

Highest Percent Profit

Lowest Percent Profit

Who spends more money?

  • The average Oscar winner budget is $82,927,713.63.
  • The average Oscar loser budget is $73,041,808.78
  • The average non-nominated budget is $50,077,035.39.

Who makes more money?

  • The average Oscar winner percent profit is 634.94.
  • The average Oscar loser percent profit is 444.90
  • The average non-nominated percent profit is 248.09.

Spent vs Made

Best Picture Budgets with Inflation

The minimum budget for a Best Picture winner with inflation was Marty with a cost of $3,674,769.95. The average budget for a Best Picture winner with inflation was$54,936,505.14. The maximum budget for a Best Picture winner with inflation was Titanic with a cost of $358,241,758.24.